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Wonder Woman (1974)
Originating Grace under Pressure
I remember seeing this as a young teenage girl. Although blonde, I never once questioned Cathy Lee Crosby's performance as being the real thing. IN my eyes, she was the true Wonder Woman, Graceful, Athletic, Intelligent, Witty and gorgeously attired, supportive without being servile to the then Strong Macho world.
Years later, it took me a while but I finally was able to acquire the movie. I watched it twice in a row and it was just as good as when I first saw it back in 74.
Great plot, good backstory and who could not fall in gaga heaven listening and watching Ricardo Montalban, who truly is a great actor himself, still love watching him young and old as Khan on Star Trek.
I hope the new Wonder Woman movie that is going to be coming out in 2017 takes notes that a woman can be strongly aggressive without being masculine, and sensitive without being a wimpy doormat. She clearly is able to appreciate the males of the species without surrendering her identity or integrity.
WW thinks quickly on her feet, is charming in the face of adversity and firmly embodies the idea of truth, justice, and equality. Plus she has excellent taste in clothes, elegant, classy, yet functional. Plus, Glass Airplane!! Cinderellla eat your heart out. lol.
I think Today's women and young ladies are finally starting to incorporate this idea into the female stereotype.
If you can find the movie, yes, it might be suggested by some that it is a little campy, but look beyond and you will have a great mid week evening movie to enjoy.
Bermuda Tentacles (2014)
this movie should have been "Terminated"
and, I am glad " it won't be back". Oh Linda,
what were you thinking..
Actors lines are flat, there is clearly no emotional involvement by anyone in this movie. Plenty of dialog, no validation or explanation, and while I liked the idea of a jettison pod, what is the thinking to just drop the President in the drink and hope someone finds him, where are his secret service men who are supposed to be by his side at all times, this their way of taking a vacation? I was actually rooting for the "monster".. Whoever authorized this as a "GO" picture, should have been fired. Probably was, pitiful on every count, not even the music score was a saving factor. Storyboard and plot obviously went to lunch and never came back. by far, one of the worst Syfy channel movies made. and that is saying something.
If you want to watch a GOOD Bermuda Triangle movie, watch the one SyFy channel did called "The Triangle" with Sam Neil, Catherine Bell, Erici Stoltz, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Bruce Davison. Now there is a great miniseries.
Sorry Linda,
but even champagne loses its "glamour" when served in a plastic cup.
John Carter (2012)
A Princess of Mars Movie, Finally one worth watching
Traci Lords did this movie a few years ago and attempted to play Dejah Thoris, which killed it IMPO although to her credit I always did like her in "First Wave". This remake however earns a very strong thumbs up from this movie "critic". ERB has so many books that have gone the TV or movie route, and this is one of his best series of books however, I can see why it's taken so long to make as CG and the necessary FX technology has only now become available so that true justice can be done to create a believable visual story.
I loved Woola, and Tars Tarkus and Sola look just like the book covers from so long ago that I remember reading as a child. Kudos to Andrew Stanton for being true to the books. Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins have the attraction in their interactions on screen that brought the dialog to life. I loved that the bits of ironic humor that threads through ERB's work remained apparent and yet was not campy. That's Edgar Rice Burroughs, better know for "Tarzan" for those of you who don't know him by his initials.
I hope Disney will continue to transfer his books to film, most specifically "The Chessmen of Mars" which is probably my favorite of the John Carter series.
It's too bad someone won't take the Raymond Feist/Jenny Wurts series Servant of the Empire, Daughter of the Empire and Mistress of the Empire to film, or the late Roger Zelazny's Chronicles of Amber. Oh well, one can only hope. If you haven't seen this movie, try to catch it on SyFy channel as it's been running this month. You won't be disappointed! May 2016
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
The "Way"
For any of you who only saw the "chopped" version, my sincere apologies for missing out on a great suspense chilling movie. The best last older Bette Davis film IMO> The original many hour version, which I actually recorded on VHS on in October 1986, is outstanding. For overly avid gore fans who think tons of blood and separated body parts make a great horror movie, this is not for you. This is a thinking movie. I was caught up along with Nick, and desperately wanted to know what happened to Grace Everdeen, why would she leave the Coombe and what did Jack really know and could no longer tell? Where did the Widow really get her medical knowledge? I finally consolidated my VHS version to DVD in order to preserve it and it now comprises one of my Halloween favorites, along with Amazons, Hocus Pocus, Hammer Film's rendition of Bram Stoker's Jewel of the Seven Star-Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, The Raven with the Great Vincent Price and Peter Lorre and Salem's Lot, the original version. Like all great true horror films, it's how you scare yourself not the amount of entrails that matters and what makes this an awesome movie.